Thanks Obama – The Coming Shortage Of Doctors And Hospitals That Will Destroy American Health Care

April 22, 2010 By Michael Snyder

As you read this article, there are not nearly enough doctors and hospitals for everyone in America. But thanks to the health care bill that Barack Obama and the Democrats rammed down the throats of the American people, that shortage is about to get a whole lot worse. The truth is that the new health care law is going to force tens of thousands of American doctors out of the system and it is already forcing the cancellation of many planned doctor-owned hospitals. What you are going to read below will frighten you. It should. It is the truth and it isn’t pretty. The U.S. health care system is about to undergo a radical transformation, and a lot of people are going to be really upset about what happens.

Even without the new health care law, the U.S. medical industry was already looking at a shortage of doctors in the coming years. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will likely face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years.

But that shortage does not even factor in the large number of doctors that are going to leave the industry because of the new health care law.

According to a survey published in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, nearly one-third of all practicing physicians in the United States may leave the medical profession because of the health care legislation that was just passed.

Perhaps the politicians in Washington should have listened to what the doctors had to say before they passed the health care bill.

Currently, there are about 960,000 doctors practicing medicine in the United States. If a third of them DID decide to retire or quit when Obama’s health care law is fully implemented, that would mean that 320,000 doctors would suddenly leave the U.S. health care system.

Now hopefully things will not be that bad in reality, but even if 100,000 doctors leave the system, it is going to cause a shortage of unprecedented magnitude.